The professor appreciated Pakistan for releasing Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in a Facebook post. He also criticised PM Narendra Modi and called Pakistan an intelligent nation. He deleted the posts after ABVP activists and students staged a protest

VIJAYAPURA: ABVP activists and students forced a professor of the BLDE Engineering College in Karnataka to kneel down and apologise after claiming that he made "anti-national" statements following the IAF strikes in Pakistan's Balakot.

"Being responsible student wing we always stands with National Security, lecturer of particular college gave a Anti National statement which was condemned by student community (sic)," ABVP Karnataka said on Twitter following the incident.

Meanwhile, college authorities said they will meet on Tuesday to discuss the issue and take appropriate action.

The institution where the incident took place is run by Bijapur Lingayat Development Education Society, which is owned by Karnataka home minister and Congress leader M B Patil.